The event also featured three elimination matches and two singles
matches. Razor Ramon
led The Bad Guys against Diesel's team of The Teamsters. Ramon won
the match for his team after all members of the other team were
counted out. Doink the Clown teamed with three midgets to form Clowns R' Us in a
match against The Royal Family, composed of Jerry Lawler and three midgets. The Royal
Family won the match, but all seven other competitors attacked
Lawler after the match. Lex
Luger led Guts and Glory against the Million Dollar Corporation
team, which was managed by Ted DiBiase. DiBiase's team won after
Luger, the last wrestler from his team, was pinned.

Shawn
Michaels and Diesel, the WWF Tag Team
Champions going in to the event, began feuding after Michaels
accidentally kicked Diesel during the match. They vacated their
title and began a feud that led to a match at WrestleMania
XI. Three days after Survivor Series, Diesel won the WWF
Championship by defeating Backlund. The rivalry between Backlund
and Bret Hart continued, and they also faced each other at
WrestleMania XI.

Contents

Background

Several storylines formed the background for the opening match,
which saw the fan favorite team of The
Bad Guys (Razor Ramon,
the 1-2-3 Kid, Davey Boy Smith
and The
Headshrinkers) square off against the villainous team of The
Teamsters (Shawn
Michaels, Diesel,
Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart). Razor
Ramon had been feuding with Shawn Michaels since September 1993
when Ramon won the WWF Intercontinental
Championship. Michaels, the former champion, had been stripped
of the belt. WWF PresidentJack Tunney
scheduled a battle royal, in
which Ramon and Rick
Martel were the final participants remaining. They faced each
other on Monday Night Raw,
and Ramon won the match and was awarded the title.[1]
Michaels claimed that he was the rightful holder of the belt and
refused to acknowledge Ramon as the champion.[1][2]
Diesel was serving as Michaels' bodyguard but soon became an active
wrestler and carried on Michaels' feud with Ramon.[3][4]
In the months leading up to Survivor Series, Ramon had also
developed a feud with Jeff Jarrett, and the two faced each other
several times with the Intercontinental Championship on the
line.[5] Ramon's
friend, the 1-2-3 Kid, took Ramon's side in these feuds, and the
two formed an occasional tag team.[6]
The Headshrinkers had also been feuding with Michaels and Diesel
since dropping the WWF Tag Team
Championship to them on August 28.[7]
The Headshrinkers had several rematches but were unable to regain
the belts.[8]
Finally, Davey Boy Smith was involved in a feud with his real-life
brother-in-law Owen Hart and Hart's other brother-in-law, Jim
Neidhart. Owen Hart had turned on his brother Bret at the 1994 Royal
Rumble, after which Smith got involved on Bret's side and
Neidhart took Owen's side.[9]

Although Jerry
Lawler and Doink the Clown had a storyline rivalry
that dated back to when Doink turned on Lawler
by dumping a bucket of water on him following SummerSlam
1993,[10]
the feud had rarely been mentioned since then. On the September 10,
1994 episode of WWF Superstars of
Wrestling, however, Lawler provoked Doink by popping
balloons carried by Doink's midget sidekick Dink.[11]
The rivalry soon led to Lawler introducing a midget named Queasy,
who dressed like Lawler.[11]
Doink and Lawler then introduced several more midgets over the
following weeks.[11]
An elimination match was booked for Survivor Series, with Lawler,
Queasy, Sleazy and Cheesy facing Doink, Dink, Wink and Pink.[11]

Bret Hart's feud with Bob Backlund dated
back to the July 30, 1994 episode of WWF Superstars of
Wrestling. Backlund believed that he had won the match and the
WWF
Championship by defeating Hart. The match had not ended,
however, and Hart pinned Backlund. When Hart
tried to shake Backlund's hand after the match, Backlund turned on
him and performed the crossface chickenwing on
Hart.[12]
Following the match, Backlund acted quite differently than he had
when he portrayed a face. He claimed that he had never truly been
beaten for the WWF Championship on December 26, 1983, as the match
ended when his manager, Arnold
Skaaland, threw a towel into the ring rather than allowing Backlund
to submit to the Iron
Sheik's camel clutch.[13] A
submission match was booked between Hart and Backlund for Survivor
Series with the stipulation that the match could only end when a
wrestler's cornerman
threw a towel in to the ring. Hart's cornerman was his real-life
brother-in-law Davey Boy Smith. Backlund's cornerman was Bret's
brother Owen Hart, who had a long rivalry with Bret since turning
on him during a tag team
match at the 1994 Royal Rumble.[14]

The central feud in the match between Guts & Glory and The
Million Dollar Team was between Lex Luger and Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation.
During 1994, DiBiase had "purchased" the contracts of several
wrestlers to form a heel stable. Among the
members to join were Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong
Bundy.[15]
Prior to SummerSlam 1994, DiBiase claimed to
have added Luger to the group. Luger denied having joined, despite
Tatanka claiming
that he had evidence that Luger had "sold out" to DiBiase.[16]
Luger and Tatanka faced each other at SummerSlam, where it was
revealed that the storyline was a swerve, as Tatanka
turned on Luger to join the Million Dollar Corporation.[17]
Bigelow and Adam
Bomb had also been feuding since the September 10, 1994 episode
of Superstars of Wrestling. Bigelow attacked his opponent,
a jobber, before the match.
DiBiase then claimed that the company was not providing suitable
competition, and he challenged any wrestler to face Bigelow. Bomb
responded, and the two brawled briefly.[8]
Leading up to Survivor Series, Bomb and Bigelow faced each other at
several house
shows.[8]The
Heavenly Bodies were not members of DiBiase's stable, but they
competed on behalf of the group. At the time, they were involved in
a feud with The Smokin' Gunns
as a result of a match on the September 3 episode of Superstars
of Wrestling. The Heavenly Bodies attacked the Gunns prior to
the match and stole the Gunns' cowboy hats. They put on the hats to
mock the Gunns and then threw them on the ground and stomped on
them. To get revenge, the Gunns stole The Heavenly Bodies' ring
robes and tore the wings off them.[8]

The feud between The Undertaker and Yokozuna began at
Survivor Series 1993. During an
elimination match, Yokozuna was unable to injure The Undertaker,
despite slamming The Undertaker's head into the ring steps and
performing the Banzai drop on him.[18]
A match was booked for Royal
Rumble 1994, in which The Undertaker would challenge WWF
Champion Yokozuna for the title in a Casket match. During
the match, which featured a no-disqualification clause, Mr. Fuji,
Yokozuna's manager, hired nine other wrestlers to interfere on
Yokozuna's behalf. Yokozuna won the match after opening The
Undertaker's urn, which, according
to the storyline, contained the secret to The Undertaker's powers.
After the match, The Undertaker appeared on the video screen and
vowed to return to the World Wrestling
Federation one day.[19]
He was not seen for several months, although, in reality, he was
taking time off wrestling to allow injuries to heal.[19]
The Undertaker returned at SummerSlam 1994, defeating an
impostor pretending to be The Undertaker.[20] A
rematch against Yokozuna was scheduled for Survivor Series. This
was also to be a Casket match, but Chuck Norris was brought in as a special outside
referee to prevent interference.[21]

Event

The first match of the event saw The Bad Guys, which consisted
of Razor Ramon, the 1-2-3 Kid, the Davey Boy
Smith, and The Headshrinkers (Sionne and Fatu) versus The
Teamsters, composed of Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart, and Jim Neidhart. The opening minutes of the
match featured brothers-in-law Hart and Smith trading moves as well
as Jarrett and Ramon brawling.[23]
Fatu became the first wrestler eliminated after Diesel performed a
Jackknife powerbomb on
him.[24]
Diesel eliminated the 1-2-3 Kid forty-two seconds later after
another Jackknife powerbomb.[24][25]
Sionne followed thirty-one seconds later after being pinned by
Diesel.[25]
Davey Boy Smith entered the ring, but Diesel soon knocked him
between the ropes to the arena floor.[23]
Hart and Neidhart prevented Smith from getting back in the ring,
and Smith was eliminated after the refereecounted him out.[22]
Razor Ramon was left as the only member of his team to face the
five members of The Teamsters. He fought with Diesel for several
minutes, but Diesel then performed the Jackknife powerbomb on him
and prepared to pin him for the victory.[23]
Michaels insisted on having Diesel hold Ramon while Michaels
performed a superkick on
their opponent. Ramon dodged the kick, and Michaels kicked Diesel
in the face. Diesel became angry at Michaels, particularly because
the same mistake had cost Diesel the Intercontinental Championship
at SummerSlam. He and Michaels argued outside the ring while the
rest of the team attempted to calm them down.[22][26]
The referee counted all five wrestlers out of the ring and declared
Razor Ramon the winner of the match.[25]
Shawn Michaels was shown backstage after the match, and he stated
that he was disbanding his tag team with Diesel and vacating the
Tag Team Championship.[23] He
then got into a car and drove away from the arena.[24]

The match between Jerry Lawler's team, known as The Royal
Family (with Queasy, Sleazy, and Cheesy), and Doink's Clowns
R' Us team (with Dink, Wink, and Pink) consisted of comedic action
for much of the first ten minutes.[27]
Eventually, Doink attempted a crossbody, but
Lawler reversed the move.[23] He
was able to pin Doink and eliminate him from the match.[27]
Lawler remained involved in the match and played a role in the
elimination of two more members of Doink's team. When Wink
attempted a monkey flip against
Queasy, Lawler blocked the move and helped Queasy to pin Wink.[8]
Later in the match, Lawler threw Cheesy on top of Pink, which
enabled Cheesy to eliminate another of Doink's teammates.[8]
After Wink and Pink were eliminated, however, they hid under the
ring rather than returning backstage.[27]
The final member of Clowns R' Us was eliminated after Sleazy and Dink fought in the ring. Dink
performed a crossbody on Sleazy and attempted to pin him.[8]
Queasy rolled the wrestlers over so that Sleazy was on top,
however, and the referee made the three count and
awarded the match to The Royal Family.[8][22]
As Queasy, Sleazy and Cheesy celebrated after the match, Lawler
criticized them for taking credit for the victory.[27]
All six midgets turned against Lawler and chased him away from the
ring.[22]
As Lawler tried to escape, Doink returned and hit him in the face
with a pie.[23]

The next match was the submission match between
champion Bret Hart and
challenger Bob
Backlund. The rules stated that the match would end when a
wrestler's cornerman
(Owen Hart for Backlund or Davey Boy Smith for Bret) threw a towel
into the ring.[14]
Bret got the early advantage and wore down Backlund using head locks, but Backlund
broke free and attempted a crossface chickenwing on
Bret.[23]
Bret escaped, but Backlund maintained the advantage by attacking
Bret's arm and attempting another crossface chickenwing.[23]
Bret used a figure four leglock on
Backlund, but Backlund got out of the hold.[28]
Bret then used the sharpshooter, his
signature hold, on Backlund. Owen entered the ring and clotheslined Bret from
behind to break the hold. Smith chased Owen around the ring but
fell and was kayfabe knocked
unconscious on the ring steps.[28]
While Bret was distracted, Backlund applied the crossface
chickenwing.[14]
Owen appeared concerned for his brother, and he begged his parents,
Stu and Helen Hart, to throw Bret's towel in to the ring.[23]
After Bret had been in the hold for several minutes, Helen threw in
the towel to give Backlund the victory.[29]
Owen showed that his concern was not genuine by celebrating Bret's
loss as Backlund was awarded the WWF Championship.[23]

The main event was next, featuring The Undertaker versus Yokozuna in a casket match with Chuck Norris as the
special outside
referee. The Undertaker gained the early advantage, but
Yokozuna reversed the momentum with a Samoan drop. He tried to
put The Undertaker in the casket, but The Undertaker fought
back.[23]
Yokozuna next performed a leg
drop and placed The Undertaker in the casket. Before Yokozuna
could close the lid, however, The Undertaker attacked him and the
two wrestlers fought while standing in the casket.[23]
The Undertaker performed a clothesline from the top rope and placed
Yokozuna in the casket.[23]
King Kong Bundy and Bam Bam Bigelow came down the aisle toward the
ring, but Chuck Norris blocked their path. While Norris was
distracted, however, Irwin R. Schyster entered the ring from
the other side and attacked The Undertaker.[21]
He placed The Undertaker in the casket, but The Undertaker
recovered before Yokozuna could close the lid.[23]Jeff Jarrett tried to
interfere on Yokozuna's behalf, but Norris stopped him with a
superkick.[22]
The Undertaker performed a DDT and a big boot on Yokozuna. He
then rolled his opponent in to the casket and closed the lid to
gain the victory.[23][30]

Diesel and Shawn Michaels began a feud as a result
of the events at Survivor Series. After Michaels won a WWF
Championship match at WrestleMania XI by winning the 1995 Royal
Rumble match, he faced his former bodyguard for the title.[36]
Diesel won the match after Sid, Michaels' new bodyguard, accidentally
distracted the referee.[37]
Diesel offered Michaels a rematch, and Michaels told Sid that his
services would not be required during the rematch. Sid attacked
Michaels, and Diesel came to Michaels' defense.[38] This
attack caused Michaels to turnface, and he and Diesel
resumed their friendship and won the WWF Tag Team Championship
later in 1995.[39][40]

Yokozuna
did not regain his main event status after Survivor Series.[42] After
taking some time off, he made a surprise return at WrestleMania XI
as Owen Hart's partner
in a tag team match against The Smoking Gunns, the champions.[43]
Yokozuna and Hart won the WWF Tag Team Championship,[43]
and Owen's feud with Bret was dropped. The brothers eventually
reunited in 1997 to form the The Hart Foundation, a stable that also
included Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart.[44]